A half km walk along the old canal adjacent to the Empress Garden leads you to a beautiful stone aqueduct built in the 1800's for carrying fresh water for irrigation. The aqueduct is built on a beautifully arched structure under which a nallah flows. Seldom visited by anyone this place is an ideal place for the common kingfisher to breed.
The Common Kingfisher is a small river kingfisher that frequents clear slow flowing streams, rivers, canal and lakes hunting for fish by diving from a perch.
Kingfishers have very keen eyesight. They have monocular vision (in which each eye is used separately) in the air and binocular vision (in which both eyes are used together) in water. Their open eyes are protected under water by a transparent third eyelid. They are capable of compensating for the refraction of water and reflection and are able to judge the depth of the prey accurately.